Date: June 12, 1973

Time: 1:24 pm – 1:41 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt.

[See also Conversation No. 444-19]

Watergate

-Memorandum from Rose Mary Woods

-Questions for John W. Dean, III

-Dean

-Conversations with President

-Date

-Role on White House staff

-Henry E. Petersen

-Conversations

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Petersen

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Petersen

-Possible cross-examination of Dean

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-President

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Gray, Petersen

-Possible cross-examination

-Meetings with Gray and Petersen

-Logs

-Acquisition by Buzhardt

-Dates

-Telephone call to Gray and Petersen

-Ehrlichman

-June 15 appearance before Ervin Committee

-Private sessions

-Meetings with President

-Leaks

-White House response

-Tone

-Preparation

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Cox

-Forthcoming announcement

-Possible content

-Dean

-John J. Sirica

-Transactional immunity

-Prosecutors’ statements

-Petersen

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-White House response

-Buzhardt’s survey of news summaries

-Progress

-Items examined

-President’s notations

-Maurice H. Stans

-Haldeman

-President’s knowledge

-President’s notations

-Dean

-Possible cross-examination

-Funds for defendants

-Timing

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-Clemency for defendants

-Timing

-Conversations with President

-Funds for E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and William O. Bittman

-Timing

-Charles W. Colson

-Conversation with Bittman

-Timing

-Bittman’s demand for funds

-Amount

-Timing

-President’s March 21 conversation with Dean

-Mitchell, Thomas A. Pappas

-Dean’s conversation with Colson

-Hunt, Bittman

-Dean

-Conversations with President

-Timing

-Content

-Significance of dates

-Telephone talks with President

-Florida

-Hunt

-Timing

-Possible cross-examination

-Buzhardt’s preparation

-Date

-President’s notes and recollections

-Reason

-Ziegler

-Conversations with President

-March 21, 1973

-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Dean

-Dean’s June 19, 1972 conversation with G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-Dean’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman

-Date

-Content

-Liddy

-Knowledge of Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-Date

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-Fred F. Fielding’s trip to Europe

-[First name unknown] Shanoop [sp?]

-Secretary to Hunt, Liddy and David R. Young

-Reasons

-Krogh, Ehrlichman, and Dean